Big opportunity

[gokangas]

For a player or two, in the twos, to stand up and demand a place in the ones. Come on Harps. Who else?

 

[Egga]

Mason Wood needs someone to tell him who he needs to blow to get a game.

 

[Smoocher]

Delaney & Garner.

 

[tales129]

jack reacher in the next @ mandurah paying $7 is a pretty big opp i reckon after tonight!

 

[koshari]

Harps demanding a game. Really?

 

[tales129]

jack reacher in the next @ mandurah paying $7 is a pretty big opp i reckon after tonight!

came 2nd! had it on the nose, this night stinks

 

[gokangas]

jack reacher in the next @ mandurah paying $7 is a pretty big opp i reckon after tonight!

Came second, just like us.

 

[DJ Dupree]

I've got the most terrible headache.

I can't fathom how, at the start of the year, we salivated over the very thought that we'd have Ziebell, Cunnington, Bastinac and Wells complimented by Dal Santo. How would we fit all the megastars into one team?

Switch forward to mid July, and we are balding, cranky, grey vultures with big black bags under our tired eyes, scratching and picking over the mutilated carcass that is the VFL hoping for something, anything, to show us half a whimper. A sign. Anything. Please.

We'll even take a non-improved Harper. Just because maybe he'll do something. Just cos maybe.

My head really hurts. I don't know how this has happened.

In the Laidley years we had all these superstars languishing in the twos who he was depriving of games. Now we have our superstars in the main side and we still can't do the job, so we're again looking to the twos for something better. Only this time, they're not. But we just hope they might.

I still think that in every North supporter, there is this innate sense that by picking someone unlikely from the VFL, we will catch the opposition napping, and our unknown player will have a good game because the opposition doesn't know anything about him.

I have traced it back to the mid 1990s when we seemed to grab any scrubber and make them a superstar just by being in our team and joining in the awesomeness.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Dumont, Harper, Mullett, Wood and McKenzie

 

[DJ Dupree]

Dumont, Harper, Mullett, Wood and McKenzie

Yeah, I'm seeing nothing there that sets the world on fire.

I don't see a 'McKenzie leads the Roos to a victory against the Cats with 5 goals and 42 disposals' on the back page.

The change needed for this side is the fundamental mindset they bring to matches against lesser sides, and that is all.

We are not going to be saved by some kid who kicked 2 in the VFL.

 

[Shermanator]

No one and there lies the problem..

 

[Massive Unit]

Yeah, I'm seeing nothing there that sets the world on fire.

I don't see a 'McKenzie leads the Roos to a victory against the Cats with 5 goals and 42 disposals' on the back page.

The change needed for this side is the fundamental mindset they bring to matches against lesser sides, and that is all.

We are not going to be saved by some kid who kicked 2 in the VFL.

Brilliantly articulated good sir! Until the leadership group stands up and demands performance from the playing group (starting with themselves), nothing will change

 

[shinboner spiggs]

Ffs mason wood was tripping over goals earlier on in the season and Aaron black couldn't find the big sticks if he had a guide dog and apple maps, what the **** does wood have to do? Do you have to be a young midfielder to be given games early?

 

[Roosurgence]

Ffs mason wood was tripping over goals earlier on in the season and Aaron black couldn't find the big sticks if he had a guide dog and apple maps, what the **** does wood have to do? Do you have to be a young midfielder to be given games early?

Brad thought Black had some redeeming to do. Don't you know that redeeming is a bigger part of getting selected than actual form

 

[archereleven]

Wood and Froggy to get a gig at the expense of Basti and Black.

 

[trooroo4life]

Wood and Froggy to get a gig at the expense of Basti and Black.

This. And i hope Harper starts putting pressure on to take Adams position.

 

[archereleven]

This. And i hope Harper starts putting pressure on to take Adams position.

Would be nice, but is doing sfa in the 2's...

All his possessions and tackles are in the guts and he cant get near it in the forward line.

 

[trooroo4life]

Would be nice, but is doing sfa in the 2's...

All his possessions and tackles are in the guts and he cant get near it in the forward line.

Adams not doing much better.

Id rather give Harper a crack, knowing that if he finds it he uses it well and has elite pace. Adams isnt offering anything why not take the chance.

Id prefer 10 disposals from Harper knowing what he is capable of, then 10 disposals from Adams.

 

[archereleven]

Adams not doing much better.

Id rather give Harper a crack, knowing that if he finds it he uses it well and has elite pace. Adams isnt offering anything why not take the chance.

Yeah, well itd probably be like for like atm

I actually dont mind Patch in the sub role. Reckon he has been more effective when playing only a Q or just over, if that can happen?

 

[Ry009]

Yeah, I'm seeing nothing there that sets the world on fire.

Great post that is the sad truth. IMO Unfortunately its a biproduct of a big chunk of the same senior players that rotate through the seniors that gives players in the VFL no motivation to set the world on fire. Hard to extract the digit when you see the same players underperforming in the seniors when you know you'll never be rewarded for good form.

 

[koshari]

Adams not doing much better.

Id rather give Harper a crack, knowing that if he finds it he uses it well and has elite pace. Adams isnt offering anything why not take the chance.

Id prefer 10 disposals from Harper knowing what he is capable of, then 10 disposals from Adams.

fact is you wont get 10 disposals from Harper and calls for him to be elevated are based ion frustration alone, may as well play mckenkie if your selecting on disposal potential on this premise.

Adams was again poor lat night but was by no means the worst, and again he is far from the reason our forward line stinks, (anyone seen Aaron Black this year????) Tarrents cooked and and Mason Wood must have killed a chinaman.

 

[LB2Snake]

I've got the most terrible headache.

I can't fathom how, at the start of the year, we salivated over the very thought that we'd have Ziebell, Cunnington, Bastinac and Wells complimented by Dal Santo. How would we fit all the megastars into one team?

Switch forward to mid July, and we are balding, cranky, grey vultures with big black bags under our tired eyes, scratching and picking over the mutilated carcass that is the VFL hoping for something, anything, to show us half a whimper. A sign. Anything. Please.

We'll even take a non-improved Harper. Just because maybe he'll do something. Just cos maybe.

My head really hurts. I don't know how this has happened.

In the Laidley years we had all these superstars languishing in the twos who he was depriving of games. Now we have our superstars in the main side and we still can't do the job, so we're again looking to the twos for something better. Only this time, they're not. But we just hope they might.

I still think that in every North supporter, there is this innate sense that by picking someone unlikely from the VFL, we will catch the opposition napping, and our unknown player will have a good game because the opposition doesn't know anything about him.

I have traced it back to the mid 1990s when we seemed to grab any scrubber and make them a superstar just by being in our team and joining in the awesomeness.

I think we had our chance to be involved in the mini drafts etc, but we were too busy self-blowing with the possibilities that Basti, JZ and Goldy would be stars...... Any one of those could of got us a Jaeger, Jack Martin type.

 

[Harris 10]

For a player or two, in the twos, to stand up and demand a place in the ones. Come on Harps. Who else?

This is how it should work but at Nth Melb it doesn't.

 

[Thewlis Dish]

Plenty of players have been performing week in week out in the twos and plenty of players have been atrocious in the seniors for large patches. Yet it's always the same 2-3 dropped and the same 2-3 recalled.

And then we start threads like "someone needs to stand up in the VFL", as if Dumont has to get 40 touches instead of 30 and Wood needs to kick 8 instead of 4.

 

[Lums23]

Ffs mason wood was tripping over goals earlier on in the season and Aaron black couldn't find the big sticks if he had a guide dog and apple maps, what the **** does wood have to do? Do you have to be a young midfielder to be given games early?

As insane as it sounds, I'm not even sure Scott considers Wood to be a key forward. I can't recall him ever being mentioned when talking about key forward options. At the post game interview he didn't sound like an option when Scott was talking about Brown missing